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I REALLY don’t know whether to cheer limply, weep, or both. So far this States has acted as if money was no object. Tax allowances, student loans, paid parking, rationalising schools – none of the decisions have reflected financial reality.

IN 2007, Jersey States asked its people what they thought of the idea of an emissions tax on cars. The answer, according to its Environment minister, was a resounding ‘no thanks’.

SPENDING on the planned British-Irish Council conference and the airport firefighter dispute inquiry would be scrapped in favour of social projects under proposed amendments to the Policy Council’s plans.

HEALTH staff were sent to negotiate with a UK-based insurer after the board said not to.

THE island’s most senior civil servant is freezing his pay for a year as an example to his fellow public employees.

FOR islanders, two words would have leapt off the page in the letter send by the States of Guernsey’s chief executive to all employee representatives urging them to exercise pay restraint in their claims for next year.

HEATHER WATSON might have time to squeeze in a trip home this weekend after her involvement in Barnstaple came to an end yesterday.

GUERNSEY triumphed at the inaugural Channel Islands Chef of the Year competition yesterday.

THE oldest surviving Battle of Britain pilot has celebrated his 100th birthday in Guernsey.

GOVERNMENT officials are talking to ‘key players’ in Europe in a bid to secure the future of Guernsey’s fund industry, the chief minister has said.